As the constitutionality of these provisions was
challenged, Supreme Court had limited choices. Supreme Court
preferred to narrow down these provisions to keep them operational
and constitutional. But it has not been realised at what cost this
has been done.

Indian cyber law has never been appropriate since
its inception. Too much stress is given to suppress civil liberties
and enhance e-surveillance. However, it has now reached a stage where
immediate steps must be taken to protect civil
liberties in cyberspace on the one hand and projects like
Digital
India on the other. This is also the high time to leave
politics and do positive things for Indian masses.

Sunday, 15 March 2015

Digital India is a promising initiative of Indian
Government. However, like any new and good project, Digital India is
also suffering from many shortcomings and weaknesses. It is
imperative on the part of Indian Government to remove these
limitations of Digital India project instead of suppressing the same.
It is also important that any critical view or suggestion regarding
Digital India project must not be either suppressed or censored by
Indian Government or technology platforms like Google, Twitter, etc.

This post is sharing the critical and other views
and recommendations of Praveen
Dalal regarding Digital India and Aadhaar Projects that
have been shared at Twitter for public at large but are not easy to
find due to censorship activities. These are as follows:

This consolidate list would provide a readymade
reference list of all Digital India and Aadhaar related critical
views and opinions of Praveen Dalal at a single place. We hope our
readers would find this post and these tweets useful and productive.

This is contrary to the stringent stand taken by
Indian government and telecom regulatory authorities of India against
foreign telecom companies. At a time when Indian government is
zealously enforcing the cyber law of India, it is really surprising
that Tata
Teleservices Limited (TTL) and Airtel are violating Indian cyber law.
There may be a case that both TTL and Airtel may not be
aware of the contraventions and violations they have been committing.
It is equally possible that both TTL and Airtel have been
deliberately and knowingly violating the provisions of Information
Technology Act, 2000.

Law enforcement agencies and other involved in
fighting against child pornography and pedophiles
are working as undercover agents and by communicating with sexual
predators through online mediums. One such experiment was recently
conducted by a Dutch organisation for children’s rights
that identified more than 1,000 sexual predators after creating a
computer generated Filipino girl named “Sweetie” to entice them
into asking for child porn.

The Dutch chapter of the group Terre des Hommes
(TDH) created
the 10-year-old girl and then posed as her on Internet chat rooms to
conduct a sting operation to unmask webcam child- sex tourists. They
were quickly approached by more than 20,000 predators from 71
countries, and on Monday, they gave the identities of 1,000 of these
alleged predators to Interpol. The top country of origin for the
adults identified was the United States with 254, followed by Britain
with 110 and India with 103.

However, not everybody can be identified and
prosecuted so easily. Cyber criminals may be scattered in various
parts of the world. These cyber criminals may also be using e-mail
services of companies like Google whose Gmail does not provide the
source of the communication.

Google is very fussy about providing information
about cyber criminals even if there are clear cases of doing so.
Although the Delhi High Court is presently hearing a case that would
scrutinise the e-mail
policy of India yet G-mail
should be banned in India not only for governmental
purposes but otherwise as well as G-mail abets and encourages
commission of cyber crimes and cyber contraventions in India.

Saturday, 22 December 2012

Legal field around the world is growing. Law is a
very complicated and vast area and with the amalgamation of
information and communication technology (ICT), law has taken a new
shape.

New areas like cyber
law, cyber
forensics, cyber
security, e-discovery,
e-commerce,
etc have been emerging. However, there are very few legal
institutions that cover these technical areas of law. The fact is
that law is today a techno legal filed where both technical and legal
fields have merged.

Naturally, finding good techno legal firms in India
and other parts of the world is really tough. Many have expressed the
opinion that there is an urgent need to have a comprehensive Indian
law database that can serve the legal requirements of
various stakeholders.

For instance, if you are looking for a cyber
law firms in New Delhi India, the platform of Perry4Law
and PTLB would provide you a link of the same where not only details
about Indian cyber law firms would be provided but also legal
position of cyber law and related fields would also be discussed
there.

In short not only details about various law firms
would be there but also brief discussion about the respective field
would be provided so that basic level legal information is available
to the reader or viewer. You can see the law
firms in New Delhi India segment of Perry4Law and PTLB for
more information.

The platform main objective is to provide
comprehensive and holistic information to the readers and viewers
about the initiatives of Perry4Law and PTLB. Further, relevant links
have also been provided so that readers can have a readymade
reference resource at their disposal.

Gradually, the platform would cover diverse techno
legal fields as are managed by Perry4Law/PTLB and other firms. This
is a really ambitious and useful initiative and it is certainly going
to be really useful for both national and international stakeholders.